The Minority Caucus in Parliament has rejected the 9% salary increase agreed for public sector workers in 2027, describing it as inadequate amid rising living costs.
In a press statement dated October 30, 2026, the caucus said the agreement, signed on October 28, provides for an 8% base pay increase and a 1% increase in conditions of service next year, followed by a 10% adjustment in 2028.
It argued that the proposed increase would not adequately protect workers’ purchasing power, given rising electricity and water tariffs, rent, transport fares and cooking gas prices.
“To offer Ghanaian public sector workers a meager 9% total remuneration increase for 2027 is nothing short of an insult,” the statement said.
The Minority also questioned why Organised Labour accepted the two-year deal, particularly after union leaders had previously described the 9% increase for 2026 as “woefully inadequate”.
It urged union members to demand an explanation from their leaders, asking whether they went to the negotiating table “to defend their wages or to deliver industrial peace for Government”.
The caucus is calling for the Public Services Joint Standing Negotiating Committee to be reconvened to review the agreement and establish what it described as a living wage that reflects the actual cost of living.
The statement, signed by Mavis Nkansah Boadu, Ranking Member of Parliament’s Committee on Employment, Labour Relations and Pensions, said the Minority would resist the pay arrangement.
Read the full statement below:
